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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Outdoor Wednesday: Early Supper

Pull up a chair and join us in the yard for an early supper. The menu is simple: salad, bread, fruit, scones, and wine. The sun won't go down for a while, but a cool breeze is stirring, and we'll have plenty of time to talk.A tiered plate rack makes good use of vertical space. Yesterday, I was enjoying pinkness, but today, I'm loving cherry red. I love how a tablecloth and napkins can make such dramatic changes.

Anyone want a blueberry scone?

We're on a huge fruit kick. Dr. G is always telling his patients to eat more fruit! No dressing on the salad except for lemon juice and a hint of extra virgin olive oil. A closer look at the tablecloth. In the 1940s and 1950s, tablecloths were the best ever. Whoever made them got it right--cheerful patterns and colors. The beehive is actually a plate cover--practical for outdoor meals in the "wilds" of gollumland.Outdoor Wednesday wouldn't be complete without a photo of our donkeys: Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Homer, and Juno. For a sampling of the great outdoors, please visit Susan's blog, A Southern Daydreamer, http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ .

70 comments:

What a wonderful outdoor light supper! Salad, bread, fruit and wine are some of my very favorite things. This reminds me I've got some cherries downstairs in the fridge that are calling my name. As always, beautiful tablescape too!

Happy Outdoor Wednesday Michael! I have been eating more fruits and salads lately.... I think it is because it is too hot to cook sometimes lately! Everything looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing your photos.~ Susan

Oh my goodness, how I love this. Let me count the ways. I love, love red. And that era of vintage table cloths. And the menu is fantastic. Light and healthy. The outdoors is my spot. The Adirondack chairs are just what I'm looking for. Polka dots are my personal favorite. And let's see..."mine" is Dr. K! (He deals more with "fruity" than fruit. As in working at a state mental hospital. Dare I say that? Well, I did.) You go straight to my blog roll for this one!Brenda

Hi !I love your food- I mean outdoor setting , LOL ! I should know not to look at your blog before meal time (silly girl)!You have five donkeys ?? I only have one and he's quite the little personality !Love the flatware and all the red !Really loving your new blog decore - I am still working mine out..Hugs ~ Kammy

Well, G, great minds must run alike, huh? I am devouring cherries these days and just yesterday bought watermelon, nectarines, apples and GORGEOUS, yummy blackberries! Yummilicious! I adore that tablecloth! It is so wonderful!!!! And I have the red and white polka dot plates too! Hope you enjoyed your wonderful, early, light dinner. It all looks wonderful! I hope Dr. G appreciates all you do. I sure do!!!:):) Hugs, Pinky

Love the tablecloth as it reminds me of my childhood. Both my parents and my grandparents had those cloths on the table for every meal. And every week, there were a stack of them to be starched and ironed. The view is just as pretty as the tablecloth. Sally

Evening, Dear Gollum! Oh, what a wonderful spot to have a light dinner! Everything is so lovely! I adore your olden tablecloth. You're so right - they were made very well and the colors stay put! :)I love your bee hive cover up! Oh, tell Dr. Gollum I'm eating fruit all day long! :)BE a sweetie,Shelia :)

Simply lovely; my kind of dinner and out door atmosphere. The table linen is so pretty and the bee hive food cover is adorable.Food covers are a must at our house since we eat our on the back porch every evening.

I was going to write your contribution to Outdoor Wednesday was like a tone poem - which it is - but then I read the names of your donkeys and started laughing in a most un-lady like fashion. I love to come here where all is a reminder of the good and gentle life. Have a wonderful day.

I would love to have a dinner like that but we will have no such luck! It is freezing here...you would think that it was still winter. Only we have rain instead of snow. We have been informed by the weather people that it might snow this week though :-(

This is such an inviting scene. I love eating outside in the Spring or just enjoying Happy Hour outdoors.Often when we visit wineries, we'll take a light picnic and some have outdoor seating, sometimes a little entertainment, lovely.Thanks for sharing. The Scones look deliscousMama Bear

I love the vintage tablecloth. I have a couple, too. I'll have to get them out and share for TT. I have been on a scones kick lately. I've made raisin, cranberry & pecan and orange. I'll have to try the blueberry.

Happy outdoor Wednesday Gollum, This just says summer to me, I love the way you have combined the checks, polka dots and florals, so fresh and inviting, I just saw on another blog a guy in Belgium who hand makes bee hives, beautiful. Your views are incredible, enjoy your wonderful supper, hugs, Kathy

Michael,You have created a lovely and beautiful setting to enjoy a graceful meal. I am arriving a tad (hopefully) fashionably late to view Outdoor Wednesday. Your beehive cover is clever so unexpected and quaint! Cathy

As always, very pretty. I, too, collect vintage tablecloths. I saw the woven beehive covers at Big Lots last year, but didn't get one as I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. Now I regret that decision. Guess I will continue to use my red wire bowl/plate cover to keep the flies away.